# Anybody have any experience with "Go To My PC" ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 25, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339 "2004-03-25T13:17:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339/1 "2004-03-25T13:17:18Z")

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The remote emulation software? I need something that will allow me to connect to, and emulate a remote PC.

It doesn’t have to be incredibly robust, and it has to be somewhat cheap.

Any ideas on “Go To my PC” or any similar programs?

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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339/2 "2004-03-25T13:35:05Z")

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Yes, I believe I tried a 30 day free version of that a while back. Actually it was something like 30 uses, not 30 days. It left when I re-installed 98 and I haven`t put it back on.

I tried it a few times and it worked great. Real easy to use- but you need a super fast connection on both ends. I think I had to monkey with Zone Alarm to get it to work right.

Try it, if you can find a trial version. I think it was pretty costly otherwise.

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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339/3 "2004-03-25T14:24:57Z")

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Try [UltraVNC](http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/) .

It’s free, can’t get cheaper than that. It does everything I need.

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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339/4 "2004-03-25T16:20:10Z")

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**FG** that looks like a cool utility.

Check out the other Open Source stuff at Sourceforge.net

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**Author:** ![Sassafras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@Sassafras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassafras)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339/5 "2004-03-25T17:31:36Z")

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I work in a doctor’s office and we used GoToMyPc in the satellite offices we used to have. Worked really well for our purposes.

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**Author:** ![jellytoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jellytoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellytoes)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-experience-with-go-to-my-pc/236339/6 "2004-03-26T00:06:32Z")

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We used GoToMyPc for about a year before switching to PCAnywhere. I do bookkeeping at a satelite office and the office I link to is 60+ miles away. I didn’t really have too many problems with it. It won’t work with Macs. And it could be slow at times. We had DSL on the host end and a cable modem on the remote end. We switched to PCAnywhere because it was pointless to pay a monthly fee.